Rozie Kelly: Kingfisher

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Jack Edwards· Host0:14

[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to a very special series here on the Inklings Book Club podcast. My name is Jack Edwards, and in this series we will be meeting each of the six shortlisted authors for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2026. I have to say, I've been reading through the shortlist, and it is one of the strongest literary prize shortlists I have ever read, and I cannot wait to deep dive it with you. Now, the Women's Prize for Fiction is one of the most successful, influential, and popular literary prizes in the world, championing and amplifying women's voices and nurturing a global community of readers. The prize was established in 1996 to highlight the imbalance in coverage, respect, and reverence given to women writers versus their male peers. In doing so, they have created a platform for exceptional writing by women to shine. The prize is awarded annually to the writer with the best full-length novel of the year, written in English and published in the UK. The winner will receive 30,000 pounds and a bronze statuette called Bessie. First up, we're meeting Rosie Kelly, the author of Kingfisher. This is her debut novel about an academic married to a man who becomes infatuated with a female